PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.3: Mortality Salience, Informed Consent, Equal Opportunity
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In canada, all institutions that engage in research on humans must have a Research ethics board (reb): committee of researchers and officials at institution charged with protection of participants. Reb"s intend to protect people in 2 ways: they weigh potential risks to volunteers against the possible benefits of research, require volunteers to agree to participate in research. Psychological research may involve cognitive and emotional stress. Mortality salience: participants made more aware of death. Writing about upsetting experience: might be asked to write about experience in great detail, even repeatedly. Informed consent: volunteer must be informed and give consent without pressure. Nature of any stimuli to which they"ll be exposed to. Potential physical, psychological, or social risks involved. Steps researchers have taken to minimize those risks. In psychological research, the main conflict is between the need for consent and the need for blinded volunteers. Deception: misleading or partially informing patients of true topic or hypothesis under investigation.
